The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1887-12-17

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4 didn't mean ter I says he.
I'D Gdn't mean ter ye, if ye was my
boy!' says I. 'Now ketch hold and
help me pick their feathers off an dress
'em for market, fust thing-for that's
all the poor critters is good for now,
says $50 much for yer plaguy nom
sense!'
He sprung tew perty smart, for once,
an Lucindy she helped, an we jest
stripped them air turkeys jest as
naked as any fowls ever ye see, fore
singein' to cut their heads, an | was
jest a-goin' to cut off the old gobbler's
I'D got it ontew the chopin block,
and raised the ak, when he kinder give
a wiggle, an squawked
Jest then Lucindy, she spokeup: 'Oh,
Aunt Melissy there's one a-kickin' !
says she. jest dropped that air COB
bier, an the ax-come perty nigh cut
tin my toes off!-an' looked, and
there was one or tew more a-kickin' by
that time; for if you'll believe me, not
one o. them turkeys was dead at all,
only dead drunk from the rum in the
corn an it wasn't many minutes fore
every one o them poor, naked, ,ridic 'lous
critters was up, staggerin' round,
lookin' dizzy an silly enough, massy
knows While that Hezekier! he
couldn't think O. nothin' else to dew,
but jest to keel over on the grass an
roll an kick an screech, liked all pos
sessed For my part, | couldn't see
nothin' under the canopy to laugh at.
l pitied the poor naked, tipsy things,
an set to work that very afternoon,
a-makin' little jackets for 'em to wear !;
an then that boy had to go intew CO.
niptions agin, when he seen 'em with
their jackets on. An if you'll believe
it, his pa, he laughed tew-so foolish |!
An ies' said to Hezekier: Didn't ye
know no better'n to 60 and give corn
soaked in rum to the turkeys? ? says he,
an then kinder winked to me out O.
tother side of his face ; an, that's every
speck of whippin' that boy got
But law sakes he wal mite wus n
other boys. There's that Haynes boy
-Larkey Haynes father good sober
goin' church-member mother one OF
the incest housekeepers-makes the
incest riz biscuit ever eat anywheres
away from hum; I shouldn't be ashamed
on 'em myself; gals quiet and well-be-
4 1a 1,,fI L orEavyt
He he'd pet lamb once, that he'd
larn't to run at you'd only to hold up
a handkerchief, and flutter it-S0-and
that lamb he'd come full chisel, and
bunt right through the handkerchief
into anything behind it-made no diff
ference to him, if was meeting-house.
Bimeby it got to be suthin' more'n a
lamb-it was male sheep-a gre't,
strong, horned critter, that nobody'd
want to be behind the handkerchief
tew times when he run to bunt it.
| Once Elder Barstow was a-stoppin'
| to the Hayneses. Elder want a very
good man, some folks thought. Terri.
Bile long and loud on sermon or
| prayer but he was master hand fol
a trade, for all that, and he'd cheat ye
out O. yer eye-teeth any day in the
week-so folks said tho the Haynese:
kinder believed in him, all but Larkey
he hated the sight of him land he
mos gener'ly alters stopped to the
Hayneses, when he come that way tt
preach.
One time, as ushil, when they ID drawet
back their chairs for family worship
arter breakfast, the elder was invited tc
lead in prayer, and he was lengthy a.
ushil it was along in summer, and
busy time 18th the farm folks, but tha
never made the leastest mite of differ
ence with the elder.
| 1t was perty hot in the kitchen; bu
he'd looked out comftable place 70
himself; he'd sot his chair over agin